3rd Grade The -ble Family Worksheets
23 printable 3rd Grade phonics worksheets on The -ble Family. Every sheet has an answer key — 23 in all. 5 activity types: Build, Clue Crossword, Code Breaker, Sort And Write. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: The -ble Family; -able = can be. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 4 to 34 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 3.
What is in this set: Build (6), Sort And Write (6), Word Hunt (5), Clue Crossword (4) and Code Breaker (2).
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 3, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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Includes 5 activity types: Build, Clue Crossword, Code Breaker, Sort And Write, Word Hunt.
All 23 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: The -ble Family Free PDF
- Build 1: -able = can be Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: The -ble Family Free PDF
- Build 2: -able = can be
- Clue Crossword 1: The -ble Family
- Sort And Write 2: The -ble Family
- Build 3: -able = can be
- Build 4: -able = can be
- Sort And Write 3: The -ble Family
- Word Hunt 2: The -ble Family
- Build 5: -able = can be
- Clue Crossword 2: The -ble Family
- Clue Crossword 3: The -ble Family
- Word Hunt 3: The -ble Family
- Clue Crossword 4: The -ble Family
- Sort And Write 4: The -ble Family
- Code Breaker 1: The -ble Family
- Sort And Write 5: The -ble Family
- Word Hunt 4: The -ble Family
- Build 6: -able = can be
- Code Breaker 2: The -ble Family
- Sort And Write 6: The -ble Family
- Word Hunt 5: The -ble Family
Teaching The -ble Family
What it is
The -ble family is words ending in the chunk -ble: bubble, marble, tumble, humble, terrible, possible, comfortable. It is the -le ending with its consonant already attached, so -ble is the whole last syllable, said as a quick /bul/.
When a child is ready
Teach it when the child is reading two- and three-syllable words and already handles -le words like table and handle.
If they struggle
Clap the word first so the number of parts is known, then split it just before the ending: hum-ble, mar-ble, ter-ri-ble. A doubled letter in front of -ble means the vowel before it is short (bubble, pebble, nibble), while a single letter usually means it is long (table, noble, cable), which is worth showing when the vowel comes out the wrong way.
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